Thursday, April 10, 2014

News Headlines (482) 6 April - 7 April 2014

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► 6 April 2014 : Your softer side is out in the open today, and you should find that your people are making life easier on you as a result. It's a great time to push for deeper relationships or just to hang out with family. You may feel somewhat dissociated today, as if you're watching yourself from a distance. This discontinuity between mind and body can be disconcerting, but it can also be a fascinating exercise if you attempt to see yourself from an objective view. You are feeling fragile, though, and the least show of opposition -- particularly if it comes from someone you don't much like -- could elicit an emotional response that is wildly out of proportion.

In these photos : Miroslav Fidler

► 7 April 2014 : Your deepest emotional connections are highlighted today -- old friends, family members and your partner are all in the spotlight. Give them what they need and honor what you've got together.With so many positive signs coming your way, you may be a bit impatient with those who try to waste your time with their tales of woe. Even if their problems seem a little silly or neurotic, show some compassion and understanding. You never know when you might need a supportive shoulder in return. For now, the ground under your feet is solid and your steps are sure.

■ INDEPENDENT 2 April 2014 : Teacher Ray Coe donates kidney and saves pupil Ayla Ahmed's life
■ DAILY MAIL 2 April 2014 : Teacher saves his student's life by donating one of his KIDNEYS
■ TAKE PART 5 April 2014 : This Amazing Teacher Donated His Kidney to Save His Student's Life
■ METRO 2 April 2014 : Hero teacher saves pupil's life by donating his kidney

► NEWS & POLITICS : Peter Matthiessen Reflects on a Life in Words. Dec. 31, 2008 -- Peter Matthiessen, a 2008 National Book Award winner, is best known as both a novelist and non-fiction writer, but he's also an environmental activist and American Indian rights advocate. Jeffrey Brown talks to the award-winning author of "Shadow Country." Uploaded on Nov 12, 2010by PBS NewsHour

► NEWS &POLITICS : Author Peter Matthiessen Died Age 86. American novelist Peter Matthiessen, whose notable works include At Play in the Fields of the Lord, has died at the age of 86 following leukaemia. The New York-born writer was also a committed environmentalist and adventurer, who wrote about his travels in the wilderness. Among his other books were The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country. His latest novel, In Paradise, is due to be published on Tuesday.

Matthiessen's publisher said the author had been diagnosed with leukaemia and had been ill "for some months" prior to his death at a New York hospital. After graduating from Yale University, he travelled to France and co-founded literary journal The Paris Review, with fellow author George Plimpton. Although the publication was a success - it is still running today - Matthiessen yearned for the US and returned home, mixing with the likes of artists Jackson Pollock and Wilem de Kooning.

In the 1960s, he shunned his wealthy upbringing to embrace Buddhist teachings, becoming a Zen priest, and during the same decade began gaining acclaim for his writing. At Play in the Fields of the Lord, published in 1961, told of missionaries and mercenaries working in Brazil. The novel was turned into a film in 1991 - starring John Lithgow and Darryl Hannah - after the late producer Saul Zaentz spent more than 25 years trying to buy the rights.

Matthiessen travelled to Antarctica, the Himalayas and Australia to write about the environment and the wilderness, as well as exploring wildlife in America. The Snow Leopard - which won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1980 - retold his two-month Himalayan trip to search for the elusive snow leopard. In 2008, he published Shadow Country - which brought together his "Watson trilogy", which he began in the 1980s, into one re-edited story. It went on to win the National Book prize.

► U.S., eyeing North Korea, to send more ships to Japan - By Phil Stewart
TOKYO - The United States will deploy two additional destroyers equipped with missile defense systems to Japan by 2017, in a move Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said was a response in part to North Korean missile launches that have alarmed the region.

► Netanyahu: Israel wants peace talks but 'not at any price'
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, threatening to punish the Palestinians for unilateral moves towards statehood, said on Sunday Israel was willing to press on with U.S.-brokered peace talks but not "at any price".

► Signals detected consistent with missing plane: Australia - By Jane Wardell
SYDNEY - Australia said signals picked up by a black box detector attached to an Australian ship searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean were consistent with aircraft flight recorders.

Ah, do not you know that every baby is exclusively for her/his mother? Would you like to be myself today and feel that no other cute baby in this world but only my baby? So, little prince George, sorry, your debut does not mean anything to me. Happy traveling, but I'm sure you will not remember anything of what you experience today. Trust me.

► IN VISION : Pillow Fight Day 2014: Feather fly up high around the world

A dog rests on a pillow while people celebrate International Pillow Fight Day at Washington Square Park in New York April 5, 2014.

► VIDEOS

■ Fear & Loathing: Albino Africans Survival in Tanzania (RT Documentary). People can be so afraid that they're even willing to kill. They say giving birth to such a "creature" is a curse. Some believe that owning a part of their body will make them rich. And all because of the color of their skin. RT reveals the reality of life for white Africans in Tanzania. Josephat Terner conquered his own fears and prejudice and then devoted his life to fighting injustice.

■ Lost: Russian Style (RT Documentary). 'What if you had to get closer to nature than you thought possible? James Brown survives being stranded in the forests of the Frozen north.'

■ True Fan: Head-banging bear dances to AC/DC. Dancing bears aren't just a preserve of Russian tsars, as Manya, a giant brown bear loves to dance to rock music in her enclosure in Khadzhokh Canyon nature park in the Caucasian republic of Adygea. The bear only dances to AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell', tapping it's paws to the rhythm.

■ Breathtaking Baikal: Above and below the world's deepest lake. It's the world's oldest lake at 25 million years, with a depth so great that much of it remains unexplored. Lake Baikal is the next stop for Thabang Motsei as she continues her Siberian travels.

■ Dubai Skyride: 4000-meter fall with world's smallest parachute. Venezuelan extreme athlete, Ernesto Gainza, set a new Guinness World Record on Saturday, skydiving with the smallest parachute. He jumped from 4,270 meters over the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, UAE with a parachute boasting a surface area of just 3 square meters.

■ World's largest Tetris game played on Philadelphia skyscraper. Hundreds of Tetris fans had a little fun this weekend with a big version of the classic video game. The Philadelphia skyscraper-sized version created a spectacle against the night sky that organizers hoped inspired onlookers and players to think about the possibilities of LED technology.

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"Thank you for your perception! I like your romantic side, even if I do not always comment and I'm glad that you're in my circle of friends."(Courtesies by: Wolfgang A. Gerhardt)

Wolfgang A.Gerhardt : May be you like this Sunday collage

Cisca Zarmansyah : Before today, there never was a person doing this to me. You create a simple matter to look special. This is a special thing for me.

Cisca Zarmansyah : Thank you. I love it. I love you, my friend. ♥

CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Hmm, he's so nice...

"I am me.
In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine,
because I alone chose it --
I own everything about me:
my body,
my feelings,
my mouth,
my voice,
all my actions,
whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies,
my dreams,
my hopes,
my fears.
I own my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me,
I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing,
I can love me
and be friendly with all my parts.
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know
-- but as long as I am friendly
and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully
look for solutions
to the puzzles and ways
to find out more about me.
However I look and sound,
whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time
is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked,
sounded,
thought,
and felt
turn out to be unfitting,
I can discard that which is unfitting,
keep the rest,
and invent something new
for that which I discarded.
I can see,
hear,
feel,
think,
say, and do.
I have the tools to survive,
to be close to others,
to be productive,
and to make sense
and order out of the world of people
and things outside of me.
I own me,
and therefore,
I can engineer me.
I am me,
and I am okay."

VIRGINIA SATIR
(American Phychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)

About Me

"When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent. I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent. I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out. I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent. I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out." - Martin Niemöller